GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 492716
Regression: New Search Bar is hard to use.
Last modified: 2012-09-21 17:45:26 UTC
In older Evolution versions when it came to doing searches there were two big targets that were easy to aim at to perform common operations: how to select the kind of search (subject, sender, body, etc) and to clear the results of a search. They came in the form of two large buttons [Search Kind]: [.......... ] [Clear] Now we have a much cuter entry with two icons [*............*] the icon on the left is used to change the search kind, and its hard to hit. I do not change this very often, so I can imagine living with this. But clearing a search is a very common operation, and hitting that button all the time is annoying. I feel like am playing one of those annoying video games where you have to aim at the location to open the doors. Can we please get back a usable search bar? GMail has a fairly wide "Back to Search Results" that is way easier to hit than this. Other information:
workaround: control+shift+q, like it has always been? ;-)
That would work, but if I wanted to learn more key combinations to do common tasks I would be using the Emacs-based GNUS. There is no reason why our UI should be regressing just for the sake of it looking "prettier".
Better covered by bug 661564 nowadays *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 661564 ***